Arterial Drainage (Amendment) Act, 1995. Country/Territory Ireland Document type Legislation Date 1995 (2000) Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleAn Act to amend and extend the arterial drainage act, 1945, and to provide for related matters. Subject Water Keyword Drainage/land reclamation Waterworks Policy/planning Geographical area Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Atlantic, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe Abstract The Minister may make regulations prescribing any matter or thing, which is referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed or for the purposes of enabling any provision of this Act to have full effect (sect. 2). It shall be lawful for the Commissioners to prepare a scheme for purposes of preventing flooding of land and other purposes under section 4 of the principal Act (sect. 3). Section 4 specifies matters to which regard is to be had in preparation of a drainage scheme. Costs of arterial drainage works may be defrayed by third parties (sect. 6). Other provisions of the present Act mainly provide for powers of the Commissioners including the powers to issue vesting orders under section 12. The Commissioners may, as respects land that is being compulsorily acquired by them under the Principal Act, complete the acquisition of such land by making an order under this in relation to the land. Full text English Website www.bailii.org References - Legislation Amends Arterial Drainage Act, 1945 Legislation | Ireland | 1945 (2000) Keyword: Inland fisheries, Drainage/land reclamation, Institution, Waterworks, Dispute settlement Source: FAO, FAOLEX